Its obviously a decent bit of kit.

I have firewire Focusrite stuff. The firewire on my PC eventually went down, see firewire likes to be treated like a lady and does not like its plugs yanks out and shoved back in without power down - eventually it screams and feints. Had to buy a firecard.

USb2 is old tech but may be absolutely fine for data flow, I do not have the intelligence ot understand the bandwitdth signal flow stuff.

A general point, I find the silence on all cards to be different, some are fireside warm and others cold and clinical like a operating theatre. I suppose I have upgraded my sound card 10 times or so since 1951, it has not been necessarily true that the more money I paid the 'better' the silence. When I say silence I really mean the general character that imbues a card - aurally. The character that is present both in the silinece and in the way it serves up the sounds.


JMD you did not say what requirements you have for inputs and outputs, maybe you wish to plan for a few extra inputs, just in case? It's just a consideration.
One thing I have done is route my stuff through, a patch bay to bring all the inputs from the back to easy access front. I find that useful here.

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Win 11 64, Asus Rog Strix z390 mobo, 64 gig RAM, 8700k